The Patriots SUCK! Oh wait, they're actually pretty good
People
may criticize me and call me a “fair weather
friend,” but it’s just not the case. Look, two
weeks ago I rooted for Indy over
the
Patriots. The last
two weeks? I’ve rooted for both teams. There’s a lot
of hate for the Patriots in the NFL right now, but
I’m not one of them. Over the last handful of years,
I’ve been rooting for the Indianapolis Colts, but not
because they’re “My Team.” I like football, and more
specifically I like offensive football. Not
offensive as in “I
just farted on your mom’s face,” but offensive
regarding points being scored. But I did just fart in
your mom’s face, though. Sorry.
Anyway. I liked the way that Indy played on the
offensive side of the ball. They were a well-oiled
machine, and I wanted to see them succeed because of
it.
The Pats? They’re all that and more this year. They
have the goods, they show up every Sunday and get to
work putting points on the board, dominating teams
like I would if I were an NFL team… So what’s not to
like? They’re playing the game I like to watch. So I
watch when I can. And I enjoy it. What’s wrong with
that, huh? Lack of loyalty? So what. “My Team” sucks.
I’ll root for them still, but there’s 30 other teams,
and one of them plays football that makes my mouth
water.
The Pats are getting so much guff for running up the
score…. So what? This is a game where the winner is
decided by who has the most points at the end of the
game. So
score points! And what’s
more, I say that if you’re 42 points better than your
opponent, you better prove it. If you don’t score 42
points more than them, then you’re simply
not that much
better than them. You want to be far and away the
best? You better play that way, ever down. You should
be putting the points up that show the world how good
you really are.
And one more point about that: I actually think it’s
insulting that a team would ‘quit’ somewhere during
the course of the game. It’s akin to your dad
playing easy on you
when you were a kid. You hated it, right? You don’t
want to be babied; you d prefer not to be coddled,
right? So why don’t teams feel that way? I mean, if
the Pats just gave up in the 3rd
quarter,
why wouldn’t a team feel like they were being babied,
that the Pats were just keeping it close to “make
them feel better?” Are they not men enough to take
the loss as it’s earned? In its entirety?
So I say, go Pats go. Put them points up. Go
undefeated. Because honestly, I wouldn’t mind seeing
history in the making. And if any team is going to
redefine what it is to dominate a team sport in my
lifetime, I think they’re just as likely to be it as
anything I’ll ever see. Undefeated? Dominating? Sure.
Give us all something to shoot for. Rewrite the
record books. That’s what they’re there for.
So yeah, I guess that’s how I feel about that.
Weather's pretty nice where I'm at.
Peace.